Nanopad

Ganksoft LLC · Ganksoft.Nanopad

A simple, portable Win32 text editor in the spirit of classic Windows Notepad.

Nanopad is a lightweight Notepad replacement written in pure Win32 C++. Features include dark/light mode with system theme following, font selection, Find & Replace, printing, encoding detection (UTF-8, UTF-16, ANSI), per-monitor DPI scaling, and portable settings via INI file. Single EXE, no installer, no runtime dependencies.

winget install --id Ganksoft.Nanopad --exact --source winget

Latest 1.0.7

Release Notes

Nanopad 1.0.7 Download Extract the zip and run nanopad.exe. Settings are stored in nanopad.ini next to the executable. Install via winget winget install Ganksoft.Nanopad SHA256 767D4131AB4B5E04250F85BB0BE1A9F4BA0B4A962DBB46AA1DDBC153466659C7 nanopad.exe 6D51479CD37A7AE5B33C5CD56E75B7E578CA1824E3E89B3C116B3BE8971E6B6F Nanopad-1.0.7.zip Full Changelog: v1.0.6...v1.0.7

Installer type: zip

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x64 Download 6D51479CD37A7AE5B33C5CD56E75B7E578CA1824E3E89B3C116B3BE8971E6B6F

Details

Homepage
https://github.com/BrianPeek/Nanopad
License
MIT
Publisher
Ganksoft LLC
Support
https://github.com/BrianPeek/Nanopad/issues
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2026 Ganksoft LLC

Tags

cppdark-modenotepadportabletext-editorwin32

Older versions (2)

1.0.6
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x64 Download 758A4546F9B1B0B2128ADF975E5C15319174AD18C4F9D2B36DCFBD42CF14121F
1.0.3
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x64 Download 6a4b1332adb46dac9555d5ad654b748024ee2769c1ff2fe797ff89810eb43363